Iron Savior Cancel U.S. Festival Appearance in Protest of Trump
In a story from last week that just seems to be getting making its rounds on news sites in the past day or so, German power metal band Iron Savior have cancelled a scheduled appearance at this year’s ProgPower USA festival and issued a statement that the cancellation is due to the new Trump administration and “their new world order.” Just as a rule of thumb, when Germans tell you that your president reminds them too much of a Nazi, fucking listen to them; they know what they’re talking about.
In a Facebook post dated last Saturday the band released a statement, saying:
“Dear ppusa community,
“with the heaviest heart we have decided that we cannot travel to Atlanta this year. The reason is as simple as omnipresent: the new Trump administration and their new world order. Trump/Vance/Musk are tearing down everything what has been build up since ww2. They rewrite history and turn around the victim-aggressor role denying that Ukraine has been invaded by Putin with 150.000 soldiers, they call Ukraine’s president a dictator who doesn’t uphold election even though they know that elections are forbidden in Ukraine during war by their constitution, they send Vance over here telling us to start collaborating with the AfD Nazi party here in Germany, they spit on the truth and think freedom of speech means license to lie and to insult. Obviously they are about to destabilize the western world order so they can rewrite it to their needs, to make even more money.
“We are deeply worried about this and simply do not feel safe and welcome anymore in your country. Of course we know that only 50% of the voters voted for Trump and that 50% didn’t vote at all. We feel extremely sorry for those of you who think the same, but at this point we can’t foresee what will happen in the next months. Maybe things will calm down and your admin will somehow get back to their senses. Or will they proclaim the American-Russian federation? All is possible and this scares the hell out of us.
“We hope to return to Atlanta some other time in a better world like now. I hope you can understand and accept our decision.
“All the best
Iron Savior”
Naturally, the comments section is full of Trump supporters whining about anyone not supporting their orange fuckboi fuhrer and accusing the band of “TDS,” which is shorthand for “I don’t have a valid counter-argument but you upset my white male fee-fees.”
While I don’t think it’s necessary for every band from outside the U.S. to cancel all their American touring plans over Trump, I’m not going to fault anyone who does. Yeah, our country kind of deserves to be boycotted right now. If I didn’t live here, I probably wouldn’t come here either. But in the immortal words of Lisa Simpson: “The United States has its grandeur and its follies, but mostly, it’s the place where all our stuff is.”
